UNEMPLOYMENT.

Wairarapa Age, 15 February 1927, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENT.

THE LABOUR PARTY’S VIEW. WESTPORT, February 14. At Denniston yesterday afternoon, Mr. H. E. Holland, M.P., stated that from end to end of the Dominion there was rapidly developing unemployment. The problem was due on the one hand to* the Government’s immigration policy, and on the </ther hand' to its neglect or incapacity to make provision for changing economic conditions. There were thousands of workless men in the larger centres of the Dominion, clamouring for work, and at the same time there were numerous important public works waiting to bo done on which every unemployed man able and willing to work could be absorbed. The Government plea was. that no money was available, but when private capitalism broke down in industry as was now the case, it was the bounden. duty of the Government to set itself the task of organising finance and credit to keep people in employment. The present immigration policy was fair neither to immigrants nor to the workers of New Zealand and should be discontinued until such time as those who wore workless had been provided with an opportunity to earn a living for themselves and their families.—(P.A.)